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(4-2005) Fort Fisher highway
information sign

(4-2005)
Fort Fisher visitor center

Ship’s Bell of the blockade runner Stormy Petrel - In
December of 1864 the Blockade running steamer Stormy Petrel was run
ashore and fired upon by gunboats of the North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron while attempting to enter Wilmington. Stormy Petrel was totally
destroyed a few days later by a gale. In his report of the incident,
Rear Admiral Porter remarked: "Within the last fifty days we have
captured and destroyed $5,500,000 worth of enemy's property in blockade
runners. To submit to these losses and still run the blockade shows the
immense gains the runners make and the straits the enemy are in"

(4-2005)
Fort Fisher visitor center

(4-2005)
Fort Fisher visitor center

Fort Fisher Armstrong gun and a reenactment by West Point cadets
after it was moved there as a trophy of war